When Ryan asked, “What do you think that says about the industry today and where it’s going?” Dua said this:

That was definitely shade toward the president of the Grammys, Neil Portnow, who said women need to “step up” last year:

It has to begin with…women who have the creativity in their hearts and souls, who want to be musicians, who want to be engineers, producers, and want to be part of the industry on an executive level, they need to step up because I think they’d be welcome. I don’t have personal experience of those kinds of brick walls that you have to face, but I think it’s upon us – us as an industry – to make the welcome mat very obvious, breeding opportunities for all people who want to be creative and paying it forward and creating that next generation of artists.